Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy"

[Ted Winslow <winslow@xxxxxxxx>]

Mine asks:


>
> Ted, why are you "radicalizing" Marshall and Keynes? In the final
> analysis, they are fundamentally different from Marx? aren't they?
>

I don't think the study of ideas in general or of the history of ideas in
particular is an intellectual version of World Wide Wrestling.

I'm just trying to show as best I can what the ideas of Marshall and Keynes
actually were.  The strikes me as an important preliminary to deciding
whether they are ideas we should ourselves adopt.  For these purposes, the
category "bourgeois thinker" is not merely not helpful it's disabling since
it prevents us from examining ideas with what Keynes and Gadamer call "good
will".

Ted
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